Tampa Free Press

A Palm Coast man is facing a felony charge after leading deputies through multiple streets and parking lots late Friday night when he refused to pull over for a routine traffic stop. Flagler County Deputies arrested 42-year-old Floyd Gaines Jr. just before midnight following the pursuit. The incident began on Kingswood Drive in Palm Coast […]

Deputies in the Florida Keys took a 20-year-old Oklahoma man into custody on Tuesday, after witnesses reported he returned to a Marathon home with a loaded gun following an argument. Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at a house on Knights Key Boulevard around 9:10 p.m. to find Ronnie Raphiel Garcia, of Choctaw, Oklahoma, already […]

Two legal advocacy groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to let parents challenge state policies that bypass their authority over minor children. The Liberty Justice Center’s PARENTS Initiative and the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief on Sept. 15 in the case International Partners for Ethical Care, […]

A federal judge has stepped in to stop immigration officials from threatening a New York man with criminal prosecution after he sent a harsh email criticizing the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled Tuesday that ICE likely violated the First Amendment rights of David Streever. The agency had sent […]

Attorneys representing death row inmate William “Bill” Lee Thompson filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court, asking justices to order state prison officials to transfer the 74-year-old to an outside hospital for urgent medical care just weeks before his scheduled execution. The Emergency All Writs Petition argues that the Florida Department of Corrections [...